Option 3 does not help secure an Obama victory. Only directly voting for Obama does that.
Non-votes are not counted.
If 90% of Americans do not vote, those votes are not counted as votes for Obama. Only the votes of the other 10% who cast a vote will be counted.
It is still hard to believe that some people do not understand this.
This time around we have a “D” who will likely strongly pull from his party. Our “R” candidate (if Romney) will not have a lot of enthusiasm from the base. The mushy independents have soured on the Anointed One, but without a strong “R” candidate, I expect them to stay home in droves.
So what we have is strong “D” turnout, mediocre “R” turnout, and poor “I” turnout. This will result in 4 more years of Obummer.
If a strong conservative ran as a third party candidate, they would possibly energize those “R”s who would stay home, and pull in some independents. Moderate “R”s would still vote for Mittens, “D”s would still vote for Obummer, possibly in even higher numbers in fear of the strong Conservative.
This scenario leads to Obummer winning with a strong majority of electoral votes, but with only about 40% of the popular vote.
Do you know of a Conservative who will be eligible to be on the ballot in all 50 states, who is so energizing that in a little over six months they can come out of nowhere and beat Obummer?
Staying home might teach the Rino’s a lesson, but lets remember that these are the same people who were perfectly happy to be the minority party in Congress for over 40 years.